It seems that BitTorrent has now leaped a huge gap in how it can be used. This was achieved by Firefox extension Fire Torrent. Basically what this extension does is let anyone using Firefox 3.0 or greater start downloading torrents from any source.Just like you would download a normal file, with out the use of separate BitTorrent software like FrostWire etc.
This Firefox add on is still in its alpha stage but I predict it will become one of the most popular Firefox extensions ever if it lives up to expectations. At the moment in Alpha testing it is invites only. But when it is released to the general public BitTorrent is going to take off in a big way. Thanks mainly to the global market pentration of Firefox.
If I was a big movie studio or music lable I would be very worried about the potential of such an Add On like Fire Torrent. The potential for it to be used to download copyrighted material is huge and big movie studios and music lables will stand to lose heaps. On the local scene record labels like CHM should be worried about this Firefox extension because of its ability to be used to trade copyright material. You may think in the sceme of things this is not something for CHM to worry about. But when you think about how easy it is going to be to trade copyright music etc, you will change your mind. For example now people won't need to have thrid party software to share files e.g. LimeWire, FrostWire, etc (except Fire Torrent). It is going to make file sharing a hell of a lot easier.
Look out Papua New Guinean music labels this is a sleeping Giant.
This Firefox add on is still in its alpha stage but I predict it will become one of the most popular Firefox extensions ever if it lives up to expectations. At the moment in Alpha testing it is invites only. But when it is released to the general public BitTorrent is going to take off in a big way. Thanks mainly to the global market pentration of Firefox.
If I was a big movie studio or music lable I would be very worried about the potential of such an Add On like Fire Torrent. The potential for it to be used to download copyrighted material is huge and big movie studios and music lables will stand to lose heaps. On the local scene record labels like CHM should be worried about this Firefox extension because of its ability to be used to trade copyright material. You may think in the sceme of things this is not something for CHM to worry about. But when you think about how easy it is going to be to trade copyright music etc, you will change your mind. For example now people won't need to have thrid party software to share files e.g. LimeWire, FrostWire, etc (except Fire Torrent). It is going to make file sharing a hell of a lot easier.
Look out Papua New Guinean music labels this is a sleeping Giant.
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There are many unknowns to it, I couldn't find for how long it keeps sharing the files.
ReplyDeleteLabels and studios won't loose heaps, they'll actually make more because of free promotion, people can already use their web browsers to download movies anyway, big bittorrent download numbers of movies are always a good prediction for studio biz execs that they should launch a DVD version of a movie sooner than later.
I think the extension is a great idea, I've always wondered why Firefox hasn't included this, Opera has done it for a long time, I think the real problem lies on people not understanding fully how bittorrent works.
Let me expand more, the regular joe, will think that firefox is slow (since it's now sharing the files that they just downloaded from the network). If they decide to somehow configure the extension to not share, they'll be punished by the trackers and the extension won't really work so well (give and thou shall receive), and if it did, it'd just screw everyone up because there'd be too many leechers and very few seeds.